Jewish Influence over Immigration & Foreign Policy
Dr. Kevin MacDonald / Political Cesspool
February 9th, 2007
James: It is our esteemed honor and privilege to welcome our guest this evening, Kevin MacDonald, a professor of Psychology at California State University at Long Beach and a very respected columnist. Dr. MacDonald thank you for taking the time to come on our program tonight –
Kevin: I’m very happy to be here –
James: Of course we were mentioning some of your work during the first half hour of the program tonight and I’ve followed some of your research and writings for a number of years and it seems as though we share many of the same friends and some of the same foes. I noticed that the lovely Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center has taken a liking to you, they love us too –
Kevin: (Laughs) Yeah, she certainly is on a campaign against me right now –
James: Well your in good company, anybody that’s…
Kevin: Yes that is exactly right!
James: Absolutely! Well lets just get down to business then. Three and a half years ago you published the article Thinking About Neoconservatism it’s an excellent and factual article in which you pointed out that when members of the Jewish community reach critical mass they attempt to take over certain intellectual and political movements in order to make society more palatable to their interests and you specifically mention Foreign Policy and Immigration as their hallmark interests. What led a man of your stature to expose the truth of such a taboo subject?
Kevin: Well it’s just a matter of reading up on things. In the case of immigration I wasn’t really aware of it but while I was doing research on anti-Semitism in America I started to realize that Jews, going back to the beginning of the last century, were deeply involved in immigration movements and it was in really sort of a Jewish community interest, and that the main Jewish activist organizations in those days were all involved………………….
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“…Most important for the content of immigration reform [i.e., loosening], the driving force at the core of the movement, reaching back to the 1920s, were Jewish organizations long active in opposing racial and ethnic quotas. These included the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, and the American Federation of Jews from Eastern Europe. Jewish members of the Congress, particularly representatives from New York and Chicago, had maintained steady but largely ineffective pressure against the national origins quotas since the 1920s…Following the shock of the Holocaust, Jewish leaders had been especially active in Washington in furthering immigration reform. To the public, the most visible evidence of the immigration reform drive was played by Jewish legislative leaders, such as Representative Celler and Senator Jacob Javits of New York. Less visible, but equally important, were the efforts of key advisers on presidential and agency staffs. These included senior policy advisers such as Julius Edelson and Harry Rosenfield in the Truman administration, Maxwell Rabb in the Eisenhower White House, and presidential aide Myer Feldman, assistant secretary of state Abba Schwartz, and deputy attorney general Norbert Schlei in the Kennedy-Johnson administration.”
— Vanderbilt University historian Hugh Davis Graham
Reference Links:
Jewish Involvement in Shaping U.S. Immigration Policy
Dr. Kevin MacDonald Speaks with Hesham Tillawi (audio/video)
